Alan Poon is among five Berkeley Lab researchers elected into the 2023 class of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Joining him in this honor, also from Physical Sciences, is Michael Levi of the Physics Division.
Berkeley Lab’s Engineering and Nuclear Science Divisions host ‘High School STEM Day’ activities on March 20
On March 20th, over 60 students and teachers from Bay Area high schools visited the Lab for High School STEM Day, a monthly program hosted by Berkeley Lab’s K-12 STEM Education and Outreach Program in collaboration with the Women’s Support and Empowerment Council (WSEC). The program featured talks about science, technology, and engineering efforts Lab-wide, and included tours of the Engineering Division’s Fabrication and Composites Shops and the 88-Inch Cyclotron (part of the Nuclear Science Division), as well as the Advanced Light Source (ALS), the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB), and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).
In Memorium – Doug Greiner
Doug will be remembered as a pioneer of experimental relativistic heavy-ion collisions, having worked on many key early experiments, including HISS at the Bevalac and NA-36 at CERN, before retiring in 1993. He had a particular interest in strangeness production in these collisions, having made early measurements of lambda production in sulfur-sulfur and sulfur-silver collisions. After retirement, Doug returned to the lab part-time, where he helped out with the construction of the STAR time projection chamber.
Collaboration Fuels High-Speed, Data-Intensive Research to Understand How Nuclei Decay
A technical evaluation using data from a recent scientific-user experiment demonstrated how ESnet enables researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) – led by Heather Crawford, a staff scientist in the Nuclear Science Division – to send large amounts of data across the country, analyze it in near real-time, and return results, enabling quicker data-informed experimental choices.
Berkeley Lab’s Physics and Nuclear Science Divisions host an ‘open house’ for prospective UC Berkeley graduate students on March 15
On March 15, Berkeley Lab’s Physics and Nuclear Science Divisions hosted Lab tours and information sessions as part of the UC Berkeley Physics Department’s two-day open house event for prospective graduate students interested in pursuing research careers in nuclear and particle physics as well as cosmology.
New Method Could Explore Gluon Saturation at the Future Electron-Ion Collider
Theorists propose nucleon energy-energy correlator as a probe to the gluon saturation phenomena at the future electron-ion collider.
The Science
The U.S. nuclear physics community is preparing to build the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a flagship facility for probing the properties of matter and the strong nuclear force that holds matter together. The EIC will allow scientists to study how nucleons (protons and neutrons) arise from the complex interactions of quarks and gluons. The EIC will also help scientists examine gluon saturation. This occurs when gluons are densely concentrated at high energy levels. It results in the gluons splitting and recombining at the same rate, balancing out these processes. EIC measurements of this behavior will help answer important questions in physics.
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